Go dreaming of adventure sample

A developer sample written in Go that demonstrates Gemini's creative writing abilities. With user input, Gemini writes a novella one section at a time.

Environment setup

This sample app can be opened in Project IDX, or run in your local dev environment.

Project IDX

1. Open this repo in Project IDX:

   • Open in Project IDX
   • Wait for the import process to complete
   • Open the IDX Panel and click "Authenticate" with the Gemini API integration.
   • Once authenticated, click to get a key which will be copied to your keyboard.
   • Add the key to the env variable section in .idx/dev.nix.

2. Open a new terminal window:

   • Open the command palette (CTRL/CMD-SHIFT-P)
   • Begin typing terminal
   • Select Terminal: Create New Terminal
   • Run go run .

Local dev environment

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/google-gemini/go-dreaming-of-adventure-sample

2. Verify that Go 1.22 or later is installed:

   • Verify version with go version
   • In needed, install Go, see: https://go.dev/doc/install

Run the sample

1. Get a Gemini API key

   • Launch Google AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/
   • Click Get API Key

2. Set the API Key in the API_KEY environment varaible

   • export API_KEY=<your_api_key>

3. Compile and run the program:

   • go run .

4. When asked "What do you want to dream about?", answer with something fun.

   • For example, type: I want to dream about unicode